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Hoplite Trademark and Copyright Usage Guidelines

Hoplite’s trademarks and copyrighted works include: brand names, logos, website content, videos and other matter protected under trademark or copyright law. These are among our most valuable assets. These Guidelines are intended to help our partners, customers, developers, consultants, publishers, and/or any other third party understand when and how they may use our trademarks and copyrighted works properly in promotional, commercial, educational or reference materials, and when they may not.

We have included a summary of high level points below for your reference; however, you are responsible for carefully reviewing these Guidelines in their entirety before using any of Hoplite’s trademarks or copyrighted works.

Summary of our Usage Guidelines

You must always use Hoplite’s trademarks and copyrighted works in accordance with these Trademark and Copyright Usage Guidelines (“Guidelines”) as well as any other guidelines Hoplite has provided you.

Hoplite can modify or revoke at any time, in its sole discretion, any permission we grant you to use our trademarks and copyrighted works unless specifically prohibited in a separate agreement.

All rights we grant you to use our trademarks and copyrighted works require that you specify that the trademarks and copyrighted works belong to Hoplite.

You agree not to challenge Hoplite’s ownership of its trademarks and/or copyrighted works.

We make no warranties of any kind with any permissions we grant of Hoplite’s trademarks and copyrighted works.

You may not transfer the rights granted in these Guidelines to anyone else.

What Is a Trademark?

A trademark is a word, name, symbol, design or device (or a combination of these) that identifies the goods or services of a person or company and distinguishes them from the goods or services of others. A trademark assures consumers of consistent quality with respect to those goods or services and aids in their promotion.

Unless we grant written permission in a contract or other document, or describe below a permitted use, you may not use any of Hoplite’s trademarks. But, even after we grant such permission, we retain the right to modify or revoke such permission in our sole discretion unlessotherwise prohibited in a separate agreement. If you have questions about these Guidelines as they pertain to trademarks, please contact us at[email protected]

What Is Copyright?

Copyrights are exclusive rights in original works, including certain written, pictorial and graphical works, audiovisual works, and computer programs. The owner of a copyright in a work has the right to exclude others from reproducing, displaying, distributing, creating derivative works from, performing, or otherwise using the work. Hoplite owns copyright in its logos, website designs and content, videos and other promotional materials, and its proprietary computer code, as well as other works not specified here.

You may not use, reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from any copyrighted work, or any portion of a copyrighted work, owned by Hoplite without first receiving a license or a fully executed Permission to Use Trademark and/or Copyrighted Work form. But even after we grant you permission to use a work by providing you an executed copy of the Permission to Use Trademark and/or Copyrighted Work form, we retain the right to modify or revoke that permission in our sole discretion unless prohibited in a separate agreement. If you have questions about these Guidelines as they pertain to copyright, please contact us at [email protected]​

Permitted Use of Hoplite's Trademarks and/or Copyrights

You may refer to Hoplite’s trademarks in word form only to describe accurately how your products or services relate to our products or services, so long as you follow these Guidelines and make clear that your products and services are not offered, sponsored or endorsed by Hoplite.

As much as practicable, you should use Hoplite's trademarks as adjectives, followed by the generic category name of the product or service each mark modifies, e.g., the Active Network Defense, Global Awareness or Hoplite Threat Intelligence Platforms. Please do not use Hoplite's trademarks as nouns or verbs.

Do not shorten or abbreviate any of Hoplite's trademarks or use any of Hoplite's trademarks in plural, possessive or modified form.

Where your reference to any of Hoplite’s trademarks is primarily intended for a U.S. audience or will be distributed through a U.S. website, publication, or trade show, include the ® or ™ symbol associated with the mark(s) at issue, as appropriate. The ® or ™ symbol need only be used on your first or most prominent reference to said mark(s). Do not include any symbol after any of Hoplite’s trademark(s) if your publication is intended for use or distribution outside the U.S.

You may only use any of Hoplite's logos under license or other written contractual permission. If a specialized logo has been assigned to you in writing to designate your business relationship with Hoplite, use of such specialized logo under these circumstances shall strictly comply with the form and extent of permission granted to you, and must remain in compliance with all applicable then current Hoplite trademark, copyright and/or logo usage guidelines.

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When referencing any of Hoplite’s trademarks in text, you must distinguish said mark(s) from the surrounding text by capitalizing the first letter in each word of such Hoplite trademark(s).

Prohibited Use of Hoplite's Trademarks and/or Copyrights

You may not incorporate any of Hoplite’s trademarks or logos or any other recognizable portion of any of Hoplite’s trademarks or logos, in your company’s name, app name, publication title, conference title, website name, domain name, social media handle or other source identifying materials (e.g. <HopliteXYZ.com> or <Argos.com> as your domain name/website address or name your product “XYZ AND,” or “ArgosXYZ”), without Hoplite’s express prior written permission, which may require a license agreement. Except as otherwise contractually provided, Hoplite reserves the right to modify or withdraw any such permission at any time.

You may not use any trademark or service mark that is likely to be confused with any of Hoplite’s trademarks in your company’s name, app name, publication title, conference title, website name, domain name, social media handle or other source identifying material or otherwise give the impression of affiliation with or endorsement by Hoplite (e.g., a name or brand that may be viewed as being a part or extension of a Hoplite trademark “family”). You may not use abbreviations or foreign language translations of any of Hoplite’s trademarks.

You may not purchase any of Hoplite’s trademarks as an ad word or advertising key word from any search engine, social media forum, or other online venue without express written permission from Hoplite, which permission may be withdrawn if you violate these Guidelines or any supplementary guidelines which may apply to you.

You may not display or otherwise use or incorporate any of Hoplite’s logos, designs, website content, videos, testing materials, or any other trademark or copyrighted work of Hoplite on your website, social media forums, marketing collateral, any publicly facing presentation materials, other promotional materials, or otherwise in connection with your products or services without a license or fully executed Permission to Use Trademark and/or Copyrighted Work form.

You may not modify or alter any of Hoplite’s logos, designs, or other trademarks or copyrighted works in any manner. You may not incorporate any of Hoplite’s logos, designs, or other trademarks or copyrighted works in your own company logo or product logo, except under license.

You may not use typestyles or fonts for your company name or product name that look like those of Hoplite’s trademarks, logos or stylizations, if the use creates the potential impression of an association between Hoplite and your company. You may not use logos, designs or stylizations that incorporate design elements of, or look similar to, logos, designs or stylizations of Hoplite (e.g., you may not feature your company name or brand name inside the Hoplite logotype or Shield design).

You may not use any of Hoplite's trademarks or copyrighted works in a disparaging way or in any way which dilutes, tarnishes or otherwise conflicts with Hoplite’s ability to use and/or enforce its trademarks or copyrighted works, even if such use is under license.

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Unless provided under a license or covered under terms of service, you may only use Hoplite source code labeled as “sample source code” or the like to run your application on a Hoplite service or to interoperate with a Hoplite service.

Appropriate Attribution Language

For Trademarks: Where you have been granted Hoplite’s written authorization to use a specific trademark, you must always include the appropriate trademark attribution language provided for in your written authorization, or by placing the following statement at the bottom of the first page on which you use the trademark:

“[insert Hoplite trademark] is a trademark of Hopliteindustries.com or Hoplite.io, inc., and is used here with permission.”

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For Copyrighted Works: Where you have been granted Hoplite’s written authorization to use a copyrightable work (video, screenshot, blog post, etc.), you must always include the appropriate copyright attribution language provided for in your written authorization, or by including the following statement:

Hoplite may authorize you to use its Web­based Hoplite Platforms and/or its REST API service platforms. However, a grant of permission to use these technologies does not include permission to use any of Hoplite’s trademarks or copyrighted works unless express written authorization is also provided.

These Guidelines and any relevant supplementary guidelines shall apply to your use and/or participation in the Hoplite Platform, or REST API services and all related programs. By way of example only, you may not use corporate or app names that incorporate the Hoplite trademarks such as Active Network Defense, Argos, or Global Awareness. These names would be blocked from use in or in connection within the Hoplite ecosystem and/or REST API services.

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You may refer to Hoplite’s trademarks in textual descriptions to accurately describe the source or function of your new software, for example, “[Your Application Name] was developed on Hoplite’s Heroku™ platform.” You should not incorporate any of Hoplite’s trademarks in the code names for your own software projects, even if they include source code from Hoplite.

General Guidelines

​These Guidelines are not intended to be an exhaustive list of Hoplite's rights in its trademarks and copyrighted works. Hoplite reserves all rights in its intellectual property, including rights not expressly described in these Guidelines. Any goodwill derived from your use of any of Hoplite’s trademarks under license or pursuant to the Guidelines inures solely to Hoplite’s benefit.

If you have a business relationship with Hoplite, you may have received additional guidelines outlining prohibited and permitted uses of Hoplite’s trademarks and/or copyrighted works, including written requirements for the size, typeface, colors, and other graphical characteristics for each. Any such additional guidelines merely supplement and do not replace these Guidelines.​Hoplite requires you to abide by these Guidelines as well as all applicable supplementary guidelines and retains the right at all times, in its sole and absolute discretion, to modify or revoke any permissions provided in these Guidelines or in relation to these Guidelines.The permissions provided in these Guidelines are provided free of charge. Hoplite shall not be liable to you for any damages arising out of use of the Hoplite trademarks or copyrighted works pursuant to these Guidelines—whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, exemplary or otherwise.